1st Edition

The Heritage of War

Edited By Martin Gegner, Bart Ziino Copyright 2012
288 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Heritage of War is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which heritage is mobilized in remembering war, and in reconstructing landscapes, political systems and identities after conflict. It examines the deeply contested nature of war heritage in a series of places and contexts, highlighting the modes by which governments, communities, and individuals claim validity for their own... Read more

Series general co-editors’ foreword  Introduction. The Heritage of War: Agency, Contingency, Identity  Martin Gegner and Bart Ziino Part I: Remembering and Representing War  1. Hellfire Pass Memorial Museum, Thai-Burma Railway Joan Beaumont  2. Victory and defeat at Ðiện Biên Phủ: memory and memorialization in Vietnam and France William Logan and Nguyễn Thanh Bình  3. War monuments in East and West Berlin: Cold War symbols or different forms of memorial? Martin Gegner  4. ‘Inevitable erosion of heroes and landmarks’: an end to the politics of Allied war memorials in Tarawa? Judith A. Bennett  5. Commemorating the American Civil War in National Park Service battlefields Robert K. Sutton  Part II: Identities  6. ‘Our ancestors the Incas:’ Andean warring over the conquering pasts O. Hugo Benavides  7. ‘We are talking about Gallipoli after all’: contested narratives, contested ownership and the Gallipoli Peninsula Bart Ziino  8. Narrating genocide on the streets of Kigali Stephanie L. McKinney  9. Remembering and forgetting: South Asia and the Second World War Yasmin Khan  Part III: The politics of reconstruction  10. Reconstruction over ruins: rebuilding Dresden’s Frauenkirche Tony Joel  11. Symbols of reconstruction, signs of divisions. The case of Mitrovica, Kosovo Frank Schwartze  12. Reconstruction as exclusion: Beirut Esther Charlesworth and Anitra Nelson  Index

Biography

Martin Gegner is visiting professor at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, and director of the German Academic Exchange Service’s (DAAD) centre in this city. His research interests lie in Politics and Sociology of Urban Heritage, Cultural Theory and Political Philosophy.

Bart Ziino is a lecturer in history at Deakin University, Australia. His research interests include memory and commemoration of war, and private experiences of Australian civilians during the First World War. Recent publications include A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War (2007).